Steam & Excursion > Speaking of Big Boys...

I painted this in 1999 of the 4019 (the engine made famous in the Weber Canyon color photo with all the smoke). The painting was used as Dick Davidson's personal Christmas Card. The railroad's graphics art department added a wreath to the front of the locomotive for the card. As the artist I was unhappy about that, but what can you do? I signed off.

Maybe the mysterious third party who wants to restore a Big Boy can come up with a string of ice-cooled, 40-foot PFE cars to go with it. :-)

John Bromley
UP Retired in Omaha

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Very well done John!

Martin

That's a great painting, John! You are a very
talented man! What a high honor -- to have one
of your paintings used as the personal Christmas
card image of the CEO of the entire corporation!
wow.....

Want to do a Burlington O5 for me John?

(wink)

Regards,
Burlington John

What a scene! Beautiful!!

I have a number of your works but can't recall having seen this one, John. Great job!

John

Margaret_SP_fan Wrote:
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> That's a great painting, John! You are a very
> talented man! What a high honor -- to have one
> of your paintings used as the personal Christmas
> card image of the CEO of the entire corporation!
> wow.....



John is far too modest. He had many commissions to do the corporate UP Xmas cards, a couple of special ornaments decorated with his scenes, and special paintings to hang in the corporate offices and the business train cars. 10 years ago we commissioned him to do a special painting for us of the 4449 running through prune orchards at Coyote-------it is a gem!!
C.

Carol Voss
Bakersfield, CA

4-12-2 Wrote:
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> I have a number of your works but can't recall
> having seen this one, John. Great job!
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> John
We never made a print of this one, just the card for RKD. I had the painting hanging in my office for awhile. I used to rotate some of them back and forth between the office and home.

John

One word:

Super

John Gezelius
Tustin, CA

You should have walked around and painted it from the sunny side - railpaintings.net will never accept it now. ;^) Seriously, very nice work and treatment of the light.

Another great painting John, just asis the one hanging in my living room. Thanks John

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY



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Bob3985 Wrote:
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> Anothr great painting John, just is the one
> hanging in my livingroom. Thanks John

We had that one hanging in my office for a long time. I called it "Krieger in the Mist".

John

Copy19 Wrote:
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> Bob3985 Wrote:
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> > Anothr great painting John, just is the one
> > hanging in my livingroom. Thanks John
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> We had that one hanging in my office for a long
> time. I called it "Krieger in the Mist".
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> John
Some of the crew did think of me as a big gorrilla when I would help them with work on the engines. At my height and size I had pretty good leverage. Lynn used to tell people I was the only one on the crew who was on a 1 to 1 size with the locomotives.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY